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Definition of Not

A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

negation of a word or group of words

How to use not in a sentence. Not pronunciation.

Please do not remove it.

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I could not hear what was said.

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I thought him a little mad, but yet his speech had seemed not without dark meaning.

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A poor sparrow on a tree-top, if you tell him he must not have it, he will hunt it down the world till it is his, as though it was a bird of paradise.

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When I asked Soolsby how it came he had been rumoured dead, he said that he himself had been the cause of it; but for what purpose he would not say, save that he was going a long voyage, and had made up his mind to return no more.

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A man's labour was not his own.

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David had not yet been fortunate with his own business-the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate-though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached.

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This esteem gave greater certainty that any backsheesh coming from the estate of Benn Claridge would not be sifted through many hands on its way to himself.

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From the ramparts of the citadel he watched the sun go down, bathing the pyramids in a purple and golden light, throwing a glamour over all the western plain, and making heavenly the far hills with a plaintive colour, which spoke of peace and rest, but not of hope.

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But I never saw Quakers anywhere else, and I meant the tribe and not the tent.

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It is not civilised life here.

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Lacey had talked so much, not because he was garrulous only, but because the inquiry in David's eyes was an encouragement to talk.

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May his grave be not made till the karadh- gatherers return," said the orderly to David.

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There was no reason why he should not go; therefore there might be a reason why he should go.

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The fault is not with the people; it is with the rulers.

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There are the poor men and humble-the pashas and judges and the others of the Medjidie, as thee said, are not poor.

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Not a bit more costly, and you do some good with it.

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Everything goes to him who hath, and from him who hath not is taken away even that which he hath.

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He was not confused, but the glitter and splendour, the Oriental gorgeousness of the picture into which he stepped, excited his eye, roused some new sense in him.